hi shane.
what type of acro is it?? that will help us to help you.
some species will recover easily and others are a lost cause.
if its montipora then I dont think you could kill it if you tried.
I would however go out and get some tech-d from kent, its a sps dip and does
very well for treating injured sps, it kills bacteria and such.
the caulerpa can definetly damage sps, as I have had that happen b4. get it
into a med to high current so it can slime away and nasty stuff and just
wait it out man. if your cal, and dkh are high and the water clean it will
bounce back very fast.
I had a frag of damicornus fall into my anenomie a few weeks back, I did the
dip and waited and it recovered nicely. the area that got hit didnt grow
back but the areas around it healed up nicely. and as soon as it grows out a
bit ill breack off the piece that got nuked.
hth
dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shane Clays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 3:22 PM
Subject: Help with my SPS
> Please! I have an awesome purple acro frag that is about a year old. It
> started out as a purple tipped frag, but since it has been in my tank, the
> entire thing has turned into a beautiful deep purple. It has grow probably
> .25 to .50 inches over the last year. It is one of my nicest pieces. Well
a
> couple of days ago, I noticed that the acro was not opening like it
usually
> does. Seemed kinda pissed. This weekend, I decided to do a bit of
> re-arranging and see if I could get the coral out front and center (was
sort
> of close to other corals, and beginning to be surrounded by caluerpa,
which
> by the way can not be stopped). After doing so, I noticed that it did not
> help and that the coral still was not opening. I then picked it up (kept
in
> the tank) for closer inspection and noticed that the coral has some small
> white spots on various areas and branches on the coral. Tissue had
> "dissolved" and the spots were almost looking like they had a bit of decay
> going on. I used my fingernail and scraped them clean and placed the coral
> back in its spot. I checked out the spot it was in before I moved it and
did
> not notice any "predators" like aptasia or other corals. Only caluerpa. I
> wonder if the caluerpa was trying to root into those areas of the coral??
> Who knows.
>
> Any ways, my question is, what can I do to help this piece at this point?
> The spots are too numerous (and the frag is too small) to frag this piece
> off. I would really rather try and save the entire piece. Does anyone have
> any idea what this may be and what I can do to help this coral?
>
> TIA
> Shane C
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